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US applies Geneva Conventions to military detainees
From the wires: The Pentagon has acknowledged for the first time that all detainees held by the U.S. military are covered by an article of the Geneva Conventions that bars inhumane treatment, according to a memo made public on Tuesday.
The memo signed by Gordon England, the No. 2 Pentagon official, followed a June 29 Supreme Court ruling that struck down as illegal the military tribunal system set up by the Bush administration to try foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [ more...]
posted by Matt Borondy at 7/11/2006 05:32:00 PM
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